--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 # ChangeLog file for monetdb-java
 # This file is updated with Maddlog
 
+* Mon Oct 23 2017 Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org>
+- Compiled and released new jars: monetdb-jdbc-2.27.jar, monetdb-mcl-1.16.jar
+  and updated jdbcclient.jar
+
 * Thu Oct  5 2017 Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
 - Corrected method Connection.prepareCall(). It used to return null.
   Now it throws an SQLFeatureNotSupportedException to comply with the
@@ -42,8 +46,8 @@
 - Implemented PreparedStatement method setURL(int, URL).
 - Implemented PreparedStatement method setNString(int, String).
 - The MonetDB JDBC driver code and jdbcclient program are now compiled
-  without debug info and with optimise flag enabled.  The new jar files are
-  now smaller in size.
+  without debug info and with optimise flag enabled.
+  The new jar files are now some 20% smaller in size.
 
 * Thu Aug 17 2017 Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
 - Implemented ResultSet method getNCharacterStream().
@@ -51,16 +55,7 @@
   and getCharacterStream(long pos, long length).  Method
   getCharacterStream() is called by DBeaver to fetch the Clob value.
   It used to throw a SQLFeatureNotSupportedException with message:
-   "Method getCharacterStream() currently not supported". This caused
+   "Operation getCharacterStream() currently not supported". This caused
   DBeaver to log the exception and show NULL as the value on screen,
   which is incorrect.  This has been fixed.
 
-* Fri Jul 28 2017 Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org>
-- Compiled and released new jars: monetdb-jdbc-2.26.jar and updated jdbcclient.jar
-
-* Thu Jul 13 2017 Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
-- Corrected implementation of PreparedStatement method
-   setObject(int parameterIndex, Object x, int targetSqlType, int scaleOrLength)
-  for the case the targetSqlType is Types.CLOB.
-  See also: https://www.monetdb.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6349
-

--- a/ChangeLog-Archive
+++ b/ChangeLog-Archive
@@ -1,6 +1,64 @@
 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE -- MAINTAINED AUTOMATICALLY
 # This file contains past monetdb-java ChangeLog entries
 
+* Mon Oct 23 2017 Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org>
+- Compiled and released new jars: monetdb-jdbc-2.27.jar, monetdb-mcl-1.16.jar
+  and updated jdbcclient.jar
+
+* Thu Oct  5 2017 Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
+- Corrected method Connection.prepareCall(). It used to return null.
+  Now it throws an SQLFeatureNotSupportedException to comply with the
+  JDBC specification.
+
+* Thu Sep 28 2017 Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
+- Added possibility to let the JDBC driver return columnType value
+  Types.VARCHAR instead of Types.CLOB in case the result column of a
+  ResultSet or parameter in a PreparedStatement is of data type 'clob'.
+  To enable this behavior provide it as JDBC connection URL property:
+     treat_clob_as_varchar=true
+  For example: jdbc:monetdb://localhost:50000/demo?treat_clob_as_varchar=true
+  See also:
+  https://www.monetdb.org/Documentation/Manuals/SQLreference/Programming/JDBC
+  This custom clob mapping informs generic JDBC programs to fetch clob
+  column values via method ResultSet.getString() instead of getClob()
+  and Clob.getCharacterStream() and next fetching from the stream.
+  As MonetDB server MAPI communication protocol does not support
+  streaming of parts of a CLOB value, the current implementation is to
+  send over the whole CLOB value as a string. Therefore there is no
+  performance gain when fetching those Clob values via getClob() and
+  getCharacterStream(). In fact it creates a lot of overhead (additional
+  objects and method calls) and triples the amount of needed Java Heap memory
+  for each Clob value!
+  With this connection property set, you can reduce this overhead when
+  working with clob column data from generic JDBC programs.
+
+* Thu Sep  7 2017 Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
+- Implemented PreparedStatement methods setNCharacterStream(int, Reader)
+  and setNCharacterStream(int, Reader, long).
+
+* Thu Aug 31 2017 Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
+- Corrected PreparedStatement methods setString(int, String)
+  and setObject(int, Object, ...) in case the target parameter
+  data type was json or inet or url or uuid.  See also
+  https://www.monetdb.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6382
+
+* Thu Aug 24 2017 Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
+- Implemented PreparedStatement method setURL(int, URL).
+- Implemented PreparedStatement method setNString(int, String).
+- The MonetDB JDBC driver code and jdbcclient program are now compiled
+  without debug info and with optimise flag enabled.
+  The new jar files are now some 20% smaller in size.
+
+* Thu Aug 17 2017 Martin van Dinther <martin.van.dinther@monetdbsolutions.com>
+- Implemented ResultSet method getNCharacterStream().
+- In class MonetClob implemented methods getCharacterStream()
+  and getCharacterStream(long pos, long length).  Method
+  getCharacterStream() is called by DBeaver to fetch the Clob value.
+  It used to throw a SQLFeatureNotSupportedException with message:
+   "Operation getCharacterStream() currently not supported". This caused
+  DBeaver to log the exception and show NULL as the value on screen,
+  which is incorrect.  This has been fixed.
+
 * Fri Jul 28 2017 Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd@acm.org>
 - Compiled and released new jars: monetdb-jdbc-2.26.jar and updated jdbcclient.jar
 

--- a/build.properties
+++ b/build.properties
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # major release number
 MCL_MAJOR=1
 # minor release number
-MCL_MINOR=15
+MCL_MINOR=16
 
 
 ##
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ MCL_MINOR=15
 # major release number
 JDBC_MAJOR=2
 # minor release number
-JDBC_MINOR=26
+JDBC_MINOR=27
 # an additional identifying string
 JDBC_VER_SUFFIX=Liberica
 # the default port to connect on, if no port given when using SQL